Basic Trope: A contest with the prize of meeting someone famous.
- Straight: Bob enters a contest where the grand prize is meeting starlet Alice Troperena.
- Exaggerated: Bob enters a contest where the grand prize is meeting celebrities every day for a year.
- Downplayed:
- Bob enters a contest where the grand prize is meeting Alice Troperena, a local actress.
- Bob enters a contest where the winner gets to see Alice but not talk to her.
- Inverted: Bob enters a contest where the loser gets to meet starlet Alice Troperena.
- Subverted: The winner gets to Meet the Celebrity Impersonator.
- Double Subverted: Or so they thought, as the promoters actually forked over the dough for Alice to genuinely be part of the competition, instead of cheapskating it.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: No contests happen in the story.
- Lampshaded:Bob: I just have to win that contest! Alice Troperena is my favorite movie star.
- Invoked: Charlie, one of the contest promoters, suggests having a day with Alice be the prize.
- Exploited: Bob is a Stalker with a Crush and uses the contest to get close to Alice.
- Defied: Alice Troperena overhears her agent discussing the possibility of her giving a day to a contest winner. She puts her foot down and says she doesn't want to be the prize.
- Implied: Bob walks up to a ballot box, muttering excitedly about Alice, and places an envelope in it.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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